Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy … - Jack Kornfield

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

Jack Kornfield

Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.

Accomplishment, Accomplishments, Heart, Life, Spiritual

Same Author Quotes

Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

Caring, Communion, Love Life, Moment, Spring, Springs

We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

Bring, Compassion, Heart, Needs, Understanding

Most people discover that when hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with their own pain.

Discover, Gone, Hate, Inspirational, Pain, People

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Acceptance, Self, Understanding, Grows, Compassionate

The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.

Life, Mind, Purpose, Special, Spiritual, Trapped

Similar Quotes

Tamara Jenkins

I remember in film school, when we made shorts, you'd sit there and screen them with your peers, which has its own flavor, because everybody's so competitive and evil, and it's a really nasty environment.

Evil, Nasty, Remember, School, Screen, Sit

Eleanor Roosevelt

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

Book, Food, Love, Music, Simple, Talk

Kate Zambreno

For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.

Agitation, Agitations, Diary, Notebook, Rants, Years

Frances Wright

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.

Error, Errors, Fixed, Mind, Practice, Simplest

Janina Gavankar

I am a big gamer. I am kind of in the beginning stages of creating a graphic novel entity that would encompass a game and a movie. I would die happy if I could be a voice in a game that I would actually play and create easter eggs with the team. That's my dream.

Dream, Easter, Happy, Kind, Movie, Team